Moshup is a giant who is the culture hero of the Mohegan and Wampanoag tribes (sometimes referred to as a “transformer” by folklorists.) Moshup is strongly associated with whales; in most tribal traditions he would catch whales to feed the people, and in some stories, he and/or his children eventually transform into whales themselves. Moshup has a wife named Squannit, who is a powerful medicine woman of the Little People.